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Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by fullshark »

01acheru wrote: post #196

I... I don't know what to say... this is so... man... wtf? I really have no words to express how uncanny it feels to watch that stuff, it seems alien television from the future and the comments seem a hive mind of bots. The experience is like seeing the apocalypse coming towards you from afar at a steady pace and there is nothing you can do to stop it. We need a big solar flare before it is too late. I don't even kno…

Creative endeavors are going the way of artisan crafts 100 years ago, mass produced by AI assembly lines, the rich will pay a premium for genuine artistry but the masses will digest this copy of a copy of a copy media.

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Post by goodSteveramos »

nsxwolf wrote: post #176

I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel. Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder. George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!…

This is exactly like Seinfeld but that only means its dry as sandpaper rubbing on tree bark.

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Post by RankingMember »

Taywee wrote: post #23
chihuahua wrote: post #12

This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans aft…

The crappiness is unexplainably funny. Jerry speaking the cues in the comedy bits and saying "pause for applause", Elaine clipping through Jerry, George talking to the fridge. I lost it when it cut to an indoor shot with nobody in it for 2 minutes and then cut away.

The microwave so loud it's practically been elevated to a cast member cracks me up

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by mcbutterbunz »

smith7018 wrote: post #181
motoxpro wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the dialog was amazing? It's generating conversations and a script for a TV show, are you expecting it to be as good as the original? It's crazy that they can carry out a conversation from start to end about a specific topic.

I wonder how much of a copyright violation this must be. I mean, they obviously fed it a lot of Seinfeld scripts for it to understand the characters and humor. I know HN likes to say "fair use" but I wonder how Hollywood's lawyers feel about that

This is the question I have about feeding scripts to AI. If I watched a ton of Seinfeld and came up with my own idea about a script, is that a copyright violation? Whats the difference between that and an AI bot learning it? I don't think Hollywood or anyone can reasonably expect people to consume some sort of media (whether its a book, tv show, music) and not come up with their own interpretations and ideas around it.

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Post by sekai »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #115
ricardobeat wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just described YouTube & TikTok. We’re here already, except we did it by crowdsourcing instead of AI.

both platforms are filled with extremely talented comedians, dancers, musicians, and artists

Wait till you find out how talented people are using AI, AI is but a tool, it's up to the user how to employ it.

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Post by listenallyall »

robga wrote: post #180
oakwhiz wrote: post #89

Just heard something to the effect of "I just heard about this new kind of restaurant where all the food is Chinese. You can order anything you want and it will be Chinese." Amazing

This may relate to one of the 170 Seinfeld episodes being entitled "The Chinese Restaurant". They spend almost the whole episode in line waiting for a table which which they're repeatedly told will be ready in "5, 10 minutes". Probably the training data included the scripts and titles.

That early episode is essentially the origin of "a show about nothing." When describing their idea for "Jerry" to the NBC execs, George uses that incident as an example. Summarizing: One of the episodes will just be four of them waiting for a table at a restaurant. Why would people watch that? Because it's on TV! Not yet...

It's very meta because of course when you say it out loud it does sound horribly boring just like the NBC guy says. But the Seinfeld audience is aware that the Seinfeld characters (now the ones writing a sitcom about their personal experiences) actually experienced this situation, and to the Seinfeld audience, it was actually a very funny episode, therefore realizing that the Jerry audience would also find it funny.

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Post by teolandon »

narrator wrote: post #107
urbandw311er wrote: post #86

Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and gigg…

The movie "Her"[1] is already here with AI Chatbots. I was recently fooling around with open source 6B parameter AI chatbots. The model is 20GB. That's just for text and that's more text than I could read in my entire life. I could talk to the chatbot for my entire life and never get to the end of it. The amount of raw information that humans can I/O into their brains is very small compared to these chatbots. [1] htt…

Her (2013) is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Not only is it heartfelt and the characters are relatable, but the sci-fi future it is set in is a very accurate representation of our near future. This movie predicted AI companions just as Siri was taking off, and it perfectly predicted the alienation between humans that is slowly getting worse. Simply amazing.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by marcosdumay »

dbspin wrote: post #195
nsxwolf wrote: post #176

I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel. Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder. George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!…

That's actually extremely impressive, even for chat GPT. Not only is it a coherent scene, the humour emerges from a disagreement about an incidental detail in the lived environment. While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series. With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up. It literally could be segment fro…

Hum, yes, it is impressive, but...

> While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series.

That's a bit of a low bar.

> With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up.

And that's what you typically get from trying to replicate statistical data from the series.

It's a very good impersonation of a theory of mind, but it's an impersonation. The most surprising part is that when asked for a Seinfield episode, it actually tries to construct a Seinfield episode. But somehow, that's that part that least impress most people.

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